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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS |
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Bangladesh Journal of Biochemistry |
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| General Policy: |
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The Bangladesh Journal of Biochemistry
is the official publication of the Bangladesh Biochemical Society
and is intended to reflect the biochemical research activities in
Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world. Although the Bangladesh Biochemical
Society will be solely responsible for the publication of the journal,
the principal policies under which it will publish materials in the
journal will remain universal in nature, i.e. it will publish all
papers related to biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular biology,
immunology, clinical chemistry, nutritional biochemistry and all other
relevant disciplines, provided the material that is submitted for
publication is scientifically sound and original in nature.
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| General Guidelines: |
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The Bangladesh Journal of Biochemistry
has adopted the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals (commonly referred to as the Vancouver Style)
as modified and published in 1997 by the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). (JAMA, 1997;277:927-34). Relevant
sections of the Uniform Requirements as adopted for this Journal is
reproduced below.
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| Preparation of
Manuscripts: |
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The text of observational and experimental
articles is usually (but not necessarily) divided into sections with
the heading Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Long articles
may need subheadings within some sections to clarify their content. |
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| Title Page |
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The title page should carry (1)
the title of the article, which should be concise but informative;
(2) the name by which each author is known, with his or her highest
academic degree and institutional affiliation; (3) the name of the
department and the institution to which the work should be attributed;
(4) disclaimers, if any; (5) the name and address of the author responsible
for correspondence concerning the manuscript; (6) the name and address
of the author to whom requests for reprints should be addressed; (7)
sources of support in the form of grants, equipment, or drugs; and
(8) a short running head- or foot-line of no more than 40 characters
(count letters and spaces) at the foot of the title page.
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| Authorship |
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All persons designated as authors
should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be
listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work
to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of
the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Authorship
credit should be based only on 1) substantial contributions to conception
and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation
of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content; and, 3) final approval of the version to be
published. Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Acquisition of
funding, the collection of data, or general supervision of the research
group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. All others who contributed
to the work and are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgements,
and what they did should be described. The order of authorship on
the byline should be a joint decision of the coauthors.
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| Abstract and
Key Words |
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The second page should carry an
abstract of no more than 150 words. The abstract should state the
purposes of the study or investigation, basic procedures, main findings
(giving specific data and their statistical significance, if possible),
and the principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important
aspects of the study or observations. Below the abstract, authors
should provide, and identify as such, 3 to 10 key words or short phrases
that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and that may
be published with the abstract.
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| Introduction |
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State the purpose of the article
and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Give only
strictly pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions
from the work being reported.
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| Methods |
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Describe your selection of the observational
or experimental subjects (patients or laboratory animals, including
controls) clearly. Identify the age, sex, and other important characteristics
of the subjects. Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer’s
name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail
to allow other workers to reproduce the result. Give references to
established methods including statistical methods (see below), provide
references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published
but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods,
give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Precisely
identify all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name, dose
and route of administration. |
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| Results |
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Present your results in a logical
sequence in the text, tables and illustrations. Do not repeat in the
text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize
only important observations. When data are summarized in the Results
section, specify the statistical methods used to analyse them. Restrict
tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the
paper and to assess its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables
with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid
non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as “random”,
“normal”, “significant”, “correlations,”
and “sample”. Define statistical terms, abbreviations and
most symbols.
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| Discussion |
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Emphasize the new and important
aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do
not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction
or the Results section. Include in the Discussion section the implications
of the findings and their limitations, including implications for
future research. Relate the observations to other relevant studies.
Link the conclusions with the goals of the study, but avoid making
statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. Avoid
claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed.
State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such.
Recommendations, when appropriate, may be included.
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| Acknowledgements |
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List all contributors who do not
meet the criteria for authorship, such as a person who provided purely
technical help, writing assistance, or a department head or chair
who provided only general support. Financial and material support
should also be acknowledged.
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References should be numbered consecutively
in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify
references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript.
References cited only in tables or in legends to figures should be
numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first
identification in the text of the particular table or figure. A number
must be used even if the author(s) is named in the sentence/text.
The original number assigned to the reference is used each time the
reference is cited in the text, regardless of its subsequent position
in the text. When multiple references are cited at a given place in
the text, use a hyphen to join the first and last numbers that are
inclusive. Use commas (without spaces) to separate non-inclusive numbers
in a multiple citation e.g. [2-5,7,10] = 2,3,4,5,7,10. The placement
of citation numbers within text should be carefully considered, for
example, a particular reference may be relevant only to part of a
sentence. Reference numbers should be placed outside full-stops and
commas, inside colons and semicolons. Citing a Journal Article: Format: Author(s)
(full stop) (1 space) Title of article (full stop) (1 space) Title
of Journal (in italics, no punctuation within title, 1 space) Publication
Year/Month*/Day* (semi-colon, no space) Volume/Issue Number* (colon,
no space) Page numbers (full stop). Examples: |
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Examples of citing books: For a chapter in an edited book: |
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Tables |
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Type or print out each table with double-spacing on
a separate sheet of paper. Do not submit tables as photographs. Number
tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text,
and give a brief title to each. Give each column a short or abbreviated
heading. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
Explain in footnotes all nonstandard abbreviations that are used in
each table. For footnotes, use the following symbols, in this sequence:
*‚†‚‡‚§‚||‚¶‚**‚††‚‡‡‚
etc. Identify statistical measures of variations such as standard
deviation and standard error of the mean. Do not use internal horizontal
and vertical rules. Be sure that each table is cited in the text.
If you use data from another published source, obtain permission and
acknowledge them fully.
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| Illustrations
(Figures) |
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Submit three complete sets of figures.
Figures should be professionally drawn and photographed; freehand
or type-written lettering is unacceptable. Instead of original drawings,
send sharp, glossy, black-and-white photographic prints, usually 127
mm x 173 mm (5 in x 7 in). Letters, numbers, and symbols should be
clear and even throughout and of sufficient size that when reduced
for publication each item will still be legible. Titles and detailed
explanations belong in the legends for illustrations, not on the illustrations
themselves. Each figure should have a label pasted on its back indicating
the number of the figure, author’s name and top of the figure.
Do not write on the back of the figures or scratch them by using paper
clips. Do not bend figures or mount them. Figures should be numbered
consecutively according to the order in which they have been first
cited in the text. If a figure has been published, acknowledge the
original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder
to reproduce the material. Type or print out legends for illustrations
using double-spacing, starting on a separate page, with Arabic numerals
corresponding to illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or
letters are used to identify parts for illustrations, identify and
explain each one clearly in the legend. |
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| Units of Measurement |
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Length, height, weight and volume
should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or
their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius.
Blood pressure is measured in mm of mercury. All haematological and
biochemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system
in terms of the International System of Units (SI). Follow the SI
Unit Rules and Style Conventions (downloadable from the NIST website:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu).
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| Abbreviations
and symbols |
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Some abbreviations are accepted;
hence may be used without definition and may be used in the title
or the page-heading title. (See Instructions to Authors, Biochemical
Journal for a list). Other abbreviations, the use of which should
be kept to a minimum compatible with clarity and conciseness, should
not be used in the title or page-heading title and should be defined.
In devising such abbreviations and symbols, the recommendations of
the Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB and the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission
on Biochemical Nomenclature should be followed as far as practicable.
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| Animals, Plants,
and Microorganisms |
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The full binomial Latin names should
be included for all experimental animals other than common laboratory
animals. The strain, and if possible the source, of laboratory animals
should be stated. The source, and if possible the composition, of
the diet of laboratory animals should be specified; this is particularly
important in papers reporting the effects of dietary manipulation. |
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| Submission of
Manuscript: |
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Manuscripts should be submitted
in triplicate accompanied by a covering letter signed by all coauthors.
The covering letter must include (1) a statement that the manuscript
has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements
for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and
that each author believes the manuscript represents honest work; (2)
the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding author,
who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about
revisions and final approval of the proof, and (3) a statement providing
assurance that the paper, in whole or in part, is not under consideration
by any other journal or publication source, and will not be submitted
elsewhere until it is declared unacceptable for publication in this
journal. Each figure or illustration should be on a separate sheet
and packed flat. Its approximate position should be indicated in the
margin of the typescript.
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| All manuscripts should be submitted to the following official address: | ||
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The Editor |
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